Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America

The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence

Campaign Promises, Economic Performance, and Electoral Accountability in Latin America

Nabuco - Two Decades of Document Processing in Latin America

This paper reports on the Joaquim Nabuco Project, a pioneering work in Latin America on document digitalization, enhancement, compression, indexing, retrieval and network transmission of historical document images.

Economic Crisis and Democracy in Latin America

While the world is focused on the economic impact of the financial and credit meltdown, what might be its impact on politics? In well-established democracies, probably not more than elections lost by incumbent parties seen as having mismanaged the economy.Butwhat of consolidatingdemocracies that predominate in thedevelopingworld, where some forecasts expect the crisis to hit the poor especially...

Inflation Performance and Constitutional Central Bank Independence: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between the constitutional entrenchment of central bank independence and inflation performance. Empirical studies for developing countries have not found a relationship between central bank independence, proxied by the de jure independence established in the central bank law, and inflation. We argue that the Constitution is likely to be better enfo...